Wednesday, January 07, 2009

How to do Hair and Fur with Construction

First construct the areas of fur and hair in chunks.

then fill the chunks with the individual strands of hair - making sure the strands radiate out from the form.

Hair is above your forms, don't cut chunks of the form out when you draw the individual strands of hair. Think about it. Your hair sits on top of your skull. So does your skin. We should always feel the forms underneath the surfaces.

Agreed! You have been outdoing yourself with the John K. Cartoon School. As much as you tout the Preston Blair book as the best source for learning the foundational skills, I'm getting much more from your site than I ever got from Blair's book. Thank you!!! Sketchbook

Something horrible just happened, I was making a drawing about 10 minutes ago. After I made my stick figure and made the form of the character and darkened the line, it ended up looking like these idiots but just with a rounded head. I mean the forearms and lower legs have that bump, but that was on purpose, is that still OK?